A new day

So today was a bit of a weird day. Just one of those flat, unmotivated, alone kind of days where I couldn’t get into anything and just wanted to hide in a corner. It took me until 3pm to remember that I knew how to shake the grey mood that was descending, but it can be hard to take your own advice, can’t it?

I pulled on my sneakers and ventured out for a walk, determined to think about what I was grateful for in the day.

Four things I am grateful for as a result:

Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales’s funny podcast, Chat 10 Looks 3(I kind of just want to hang out with them and eat cake)

The most excellent fat white cockatoo who alighted on a pole just ahead of me, his crest all up like a punk mohawk

The local florist, where I stopped and had a chat and bought myself some pretty flowers (above)

Getting home and immediately writing a blog post on gratitude and sending it off to the Huffington Post for their series on gratitude (no idea whether they’ll accept it – if they don’t, I’ll post it here, so nothing’s wasted!)

See, all I needed to do was get outside, get the blood moving, and refocus on the good things.